Oranges All Across, Mr. Redd
By Kate X Messer, Fri., July 23, 2010
“It’s one of the reasons the universe dropped me here: to take this huge amount of personal energy that I have and throw it at this and keep throwing until we get the slot machine to come up oranges all across. … Austin needs a performing arts center.” – Cliff Redd in an interview with Robert Faires, “Meet the New Bosses,” Sept. 17, 2004
Cliff Redd has retired. We’re not losing an executive director, Austin, we’re gaining an executive director emeritus, which the venerable Mr. Redd shall hold in perpetuity. The Long Center board bestowed Redd’s new title, in appreciation of his enthusiastic service from 2004 until the present in cheerleading and launching the Long Center for the Performing Arts, at the acceptance of his retirement request during a meeting Monday night, July 19. The board will begin a national search for his replacement immediately. Coverage of his retirement will continue next week.
